This Week in MMWR - Vol. 69, July 3, 2020

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Reports on COVID-19 Among Psychiatric Facility Patients, Medical Expenditures Attributed to Asthma and COPD, and more.

July 3, 2020 

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Recommendations and Reports

Prevention of Hepatitis A Virus Infection in the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices  The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) provides the first full update to hepatitis A vaccination recommendations in 14 years and now recommends hepatitis A catch-up vaccination for anyone aged 2-18 years, vaccination for anyone 1 year of age or older with HIV, and other new and updated recommendations.

WEEKLY REPORT

Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Within a Psychiatric Hospital and Considerations for Limiting Transmission Within Residential Psychiatric Facilities — Wyoming, 2020 Psychiatric facilities face unique challenges in implementing standard infection prevention and control measures. Adaptation of standard infection prevention and control strategies to meet patient and facility needs might prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.

• Medical Expenditures Attributed to Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Workers — United States, 2011–2015
• Salmonellosis Outbreak Detected by Automated Spatiotemporal Analysis — New York City, May–June 2019
• Use of Molecular Epidemiology to Inform Response to a Hepatitis A Outbreak — Los Angeles County, California, October 2018–April 2019
• COVID-19 Outbreak Among College Students After a Spring Break Trip to Mexico — Austin, Texas, March 26–April 5, 2020
• Serial Laboratory Testing for SARS-CoV-2 Infection Among Incarcerated and Detained Persons in a Correctional and Detention Facility — Louisiana, April–May 2020
• Characteristics of Adult Outpatients and Inpatients with COVID-19 — 11 Academic Medical Centers, United States, March–May 2020
• Exposures Before Issuance of Stay-at-Home Orders Among Persons with Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19 — Colorado, March 2020

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QUICKSTATS

Percentage of Families That Often or Sometimes Did Not Have Enough Food To Last 30 Days and Did Not Have Enough Money to Buy More, by Poverty Status — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2018

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